Zealandia - Season 1 Episode 6 Lethal Ladies: New Zealand’s Female Fighters
VICE gets up close and personal with a cross section of Aotearoa’s most ferocious female fighters as they prepare for the Lethal Ladies fight meet. There’s Wendy Talbot, who sleeps in her van so she can be closer to her gym, and Kelly Broerse, a former competitive ballroom dancer who’s found her true calling in the Muay Thai ring. Baby “Pitbull” Nansen, fresh from becoming the first New Zealand woman to fight at New York’s Madison Square Garden, takes us inside SMAC Gym to show how combat sports can turn lives around—just as they did for her. VICE examines the motivations and challenges of the top echelon of female fighting talent, and reveals the raw truth of exactly what it takes to get in the ring: the physical toll it takes on the body, the mental toll it takes on the mind. “You’re getting in the ring with someone who wants to beat the crap out of you,” says Broerse. “It’s terrifying.”Read Less
First Air Date: May 07, 2017
Last Air date: Feb 12, 2019
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 9 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
IMDb: 10.00/10 by 1.00 users
Popularity: 1.189
Language: English
Keyword : new zealand
Season
Season 1
Episode
Auckland's Underground Vogue Scene
Last Man of Mahana
New Zealand's Deadly Synthetic Drugs Epidemic
Lost Boys of Taranaki
Alien Weaponry: Thrash Metal and Te Reo Maori
Lethal Ladies: New Zealand’s Female Fighters
Inside Sex Work in New Zealand
Women in the House
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